Structural Patronage in Thailand: A Decade of Power Struggle and Problematic Issues in Governance with Regards to The Thai Local Administrative Organizations
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This paper examines and analyses contemporary problems of power struggle and problematic issues in governance with regard to local administrative organizations in Thailand. The study showed that Thai local administrative organizations, although applying a decentralization principle for decades, still encounter a power struggle in general and problematic issues in governance in particular in five dimensions. These are: the structural problem of local administrative organizations, power and public duties in providing public services, local personnel administration, local public finance, and the public’s participation in, monitoring, and inspection of local administrative organizations. Based on our findings, we argue that structural patronage has, relatively to other factors, caused most of those problems.
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